Which to use
“travée” and “travers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #39,074
- “travée” frequency rank
- #730
- “travers” frequency rank
- 39804
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | travée | travers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Entre deux poutres, espace rempli par des solives. | Étendue d’un corps considéré dans sa largeur. |
Where the eye mixes travée and travers
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. travée runs 6 letters (CCVCVV) against travers's 7 (CCVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between travée and travers
A purely visual mix-up. travée (\tʁa.ve\) and travers (\tʁa.vɛʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39804, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
travée is recorded at frequency rank #39,074, classified as anoun, pronounced \tʁa.ve\. travers is at rank #730, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tʁa.vɛʁ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 39804, this pair ranks #245,241 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of travée vs travers
Shared letters: aertv. Private to "travée": é. Private to "travers": s.
"travée" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV · "travers" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- travers ← rtavers · tarvers · traevrs · traverrs · traverss · travesr · travres · travvers
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "travée" and "travers" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "travée" or "travers" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "travée" and "travers" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "travée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "travers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #245,241 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "travée" and "travers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "trance vs travée". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #245,241 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.